Current state of new movies

[hedonis]

Hey people!

I was reading the other night, and I saw that the coming year(s) treats us to more of the big studio systems doing their own version of 'playing it safe', which means, we can expect fewer and fewer new, fresh, creative ideas in movies, while getting shoveled heaping helpings of stuff that may seem familiar.

In the next coming few years (With "Godzilla" ruling at the box office right now):

Goonies (Sequel)- Timely, right?
Mrs. Doubtfire (Sequel)
Annie (Remake)
The Crow (Reboot) Stephen Norrington
Flight of the Navigator
Godzilla (Sequel already announced)
Legend of Conan (Yes, with Arnie)
Gremlins
Stephen King's IT (Good luck without Curry)
Overboard
Drop Dead Fred
Honey I shrunk the Kids
Neverending Story
Cliffhanger
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Weird Science
Dirty Dancing
The Naked Gun
Friday the 13th's Reboot is getting a reboot
Scarface
Escape from New York
Jumanji
The Omen is getting a TV series
The Mummy
National Lampoon's Family vacation
Tomb Raider
Starship Troopers
Jurassic Park
It's a Wonderful Life
Another planet of the apes movie no one asked for
Ghostbusters 3 (Without Ramis or Murray)
Paranormal Activity 5
Pirates of the Caribbean 5
A movie about Marshmallow peeps
A "Family friendly" version of Toxic Avenger

And LOTS more super hero movies, each costing $150-200 million dollars or more, and sort of, kind of making that money back. See, those budgets don't include the astronomical costs of promoting and advertising those movies. So...

What do you guys think? Is it cool that they just seem to have abandoned (for the most part) putting any money behind new ideas?

H

 

[hedonis]

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/sequels/30022/129-movie-sequels-currently-in-the-works

And please enjoy this list, too.

 

[Anonyne#017]

Maybe they are just lacking or running out good and worthy new scripts for their movies instead of "playing it safe"? Many of the most popular movies are based on older "already popular" -stories, which are turned into a movies either way.

Also when you give a little finger people tend to take whole hand. People nowadays are bitchy, picky and whiny little pricks who don't want to watch movies that much without over-expensive hollywood and computer effects. They will think that movie sucks automatically, unless they exceeds certain amount of money burned to making of the movie with shiny effects beforehand.

 

[itputsthelotion]

Complaining about remakes and sequels? Get in line because you're not the first.

 

[darkwarrior3007]

Hollywood gets new scripts for new movies everyday. It's just much much easier these days to go with a proven franchise or movie to make their money back plus profit. You may probably see 5 brand new, never before seen movies a year. Then if that movie becomes a hit, that movie now gets added to the list of sequels.

 

[mokbel69]

darkwarrior is right. The big studios want francises that are easy to market and practically guaranteed to make money. Taking a punt is a risk and they see risk as a no-no. Plus I do feel that these days most movie goers seem to be the type who only go to the movies for a night out. And they want easy digestible, lots of CGI action 'popcorn' movies. Not thought provoking movies that have a plot that requires you to think and have to follow what's going on. It's a shame because most of the best and most profitable movies of all time are those that had great plots, acting and cost the least to make. There are movies out there like that still but finding them is hard because they are limited release and don't get promoted whatsoever. You used to be able to use sites like IMDB.com as a guide but even that has turned into a marketing tool and a lot of crap movies seem to have awfully high ratings.......Basically all this is capitalism at work. And the internet and digital age has changed things too.

I'm not totally against remakes and sequels as they have been around for a long time. But they have to be warranted. I'm looking forward to Clerks 3 and Tucker and Dale Vs Evil 2 as the previous movies are favs of mine. Oliver Stone's Scarface was a remake which was warranted. Close to 50 years after the original and inspired by the cocaine trade of the 70s and early 80s in Florida, made it into a classic. However remaking Scarface again is pointless. Aliens and Terminator 2 were equals if not better than their originals. Aliens 3 and 4, Terminator 3 and Salvation were disappointing and could have been given a miss IMO. The endless sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots has gotten out of hand. Next thing we know, they will make more Police Academy movies!!!

Mainstream movies stopped being 'art' a long time ago....music is basically in the same boat. Truly talented artists who are new to the business, or don't make companies enough money, can no longer rely on labels and studios to get their ideas out there. Instead they will rely on funding from independant sources, such as internet sites like pozible, pledge, etc. This is the future I think.

 

[sean miguel]

That list is sickening. There are now reboots of reboots.

While they're at it how about a Transformers reboot without Shia LaBarf?

 

[Rey C.]

American movies and TV should just go ahead and die and get it over with. All they do any more is run something by a test audience of half-wits, re-edit what might have been a decent movie with good storytelling, and turn it into some formulaic, politically correct piece of shit that's be done 50 times before.

I'd rather watch Citizen Kane or The Godfather Part II for the 100th time rather than waste two hours and $20 to watch any of the poorly written & acted, socially engineered shit that rolls of of Hollyweird these days.

If the nickel-sniffers that run the media giants didn't also own the U.S. Congress, we would be allowed to watch foreign TV and programming... without having to resort to covert means.

 

[thatbigsecret]

It's completely true...what a sad state for what used to define great movies. Inglorious Basterds gets the most props for recent movies from me and I'm not a huge Tarantino fan nor hater.

Here's to foreign cinema's rise and me reading subtitles like a boss

 

[darkwarrior3007]

That list is sickening. There are now reboots of reboots.

While they're at it how about a Transformers reboot without Shia LaBarf?

Transformers 4 doesn't have Shia LaBeouf in it. It's Marky Mark's turn now.

 

[sean miguel]

Transformers 4 doesn't have Shia LaBeouf in it. It's Marky Mark's turn now.

An improvement to be sure.

14 Movies In 2014 That Aren’t Sequels, Prequels, Reboots, Or Adaptations
http://www.buzzfeed.com/wordsbydan/14-movies-in-2014-that-arent-sequels-prequels-r-b6bd

Damn, those don't look much better

A movie I'm looking forward to is The Hornet's Nest.